the man accused of killing eight people dead in three locations around atlanta. >> the suspect did take responsibility for the shootings. >> the possible motive and how his capture may have prevented more attacks. >> two jurors dismissed. the $27 million settlement between minneapolis and floyd's family continues to complicate the court proceeding >>> a dangerous tornado outbreak underway in the deep south now a rare high risk alert for millions of people who's in the danger zone plus, struggling to survive the pandemic see the empty shopping malls recast for storage for the stuff we've already bought live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, "the news with shepard smith. >> and good evening. was it hate or sex addiction investigators say it is now too early to tell whether the killing spree that left eight people dead at spas in the atlanta area was a hate crime against asian people six of the eight were women of ashane descent the suspected gunman admitted he's responsible but denied that the shootings were racially motivated at all and claimed he was a sex addict who wanted to get rid of

our voices are not heard we do not have enough police. >> reporter: retired atlanta police detecttive vincent velazquez is also a buckhead resident he attributes some of the spike to fallout after the death of ray shard brooks who was killed by atlanta police just weeks after the murder of george floyd. >> the city immediately mid a decision to fire those officers so i think the atlanta police department in particular, the officers felt not supported and they just basically sat down for a while and took a break meantime, citizens are the ones that were suffering because criminals had a flow for all. >> reporter: i can tell you right now that buckhead is not the most dangerous part of the city in fact, it's the safest part of the city. >> the state's top criminologist hasn't been immune to the fire being shot by a stray bullet outside a home depot a nearby fight at a pool party spilled out into the parking lot. bill white says residents don't like the unpredictability and he's determined to redirect the 40% tax base that they direct to the city of atlanta. >> the biggie bank to the cit

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here a woman knees in atlanta at a makeshift memorial for the victims there. they'll remember now gun laws, regulations, background checks, soft targets, body armor, death penalty, mental health, time for action, i promise, thoughts and prayers. we hear you. we heard you as i delivered an almost carbon-copy of this report on august 5th of 2019 on another network. identical but with names, places and circumstances updated for today's recertification. we hear you. then, now, and in the not distant enough future we likely will hear you yet again in america nbc steve patterson is live in boulder with details from authorities on what happened, what they've learned, and what's to come. steve? >> well, it's been a day for developments we learned more about the shooter and more about the circumstances surrounding the shooting and much more about the ten victims that lost their lives. but right now, i just want to show you boulder take a look over my left shoulder you can see this sea of traffic, line oy there's a long road to go, and part of it is going to have to go

the mlb pulls the all-star game and the draft from atlanta, protesting georgia's new voting restrictions that president biden called jim crow on steroids >>> and did the cop use too much force with his knee on george floyd's neck >> it's just uncalled for. >> the longest-serving officer in the department minces no words. >> totally unnecessary. >> day five in the trial of derek chauvin. >>> live from cnbc, the facts, the truth, "the news with shepard smith." >> good evening. keep capitol police and their families in your prayers, that's the message on this good friday evening from the acting chief after yet another one of her officers was killed outside of the capitol and another officer seriously hurt nothing official on injuries but we're told that officer is in the hospital listed in stable condition. here's what police say happened, around 1:00 this afternoon, a man hit two officers with a car before crashing it into a security barricade police say the man then hopped out of the vehicle, wielding a knife. officers gave orders to stop but they say he didn't respond instead police say

investigators say the gunman claim his shooting spree was not racially motivated but atlanta police say they've not ruled it out as a possible hate crime nbc's jeff bennett is in atlanta for us tonight jeff, the president said coronavirus rhetoric has been part of the rise in the violence against asian-americans. >> reporter: that's right, shep. good evening president biden said even as investigators worked to piece together the facts of the shooting rampage in which the gunman shot and killed eight people, six of them asian women, president biden said there's no denying the shootings come against a backdrop of increased numbers of violence and instances of hate speech against asian-americans. he said hate can have no safe harbor in the country and it's on all of us to stop it. he's calling on congress to pass legislation that would make it easier for people to report incidents of violence against asian-americans. the president also used his remarks to sound another warning about the pandemic he talked about the emerging variants connected to covid-19 and says now is not the time to let

frank holland live tonight in atlanta. >>> tragedy in utah, police say four skiers were killed by an avalanche in salt lake city. it happened saturday at the popular tourist attraction mill creek canyon state officials there say the avalanche triggered at 9,300 feet police say eight people were buried in the snow, but that four of them managed to dig themselves out the four skiers who died were all in their 20s authorities say crews recovered their remains yesterday after three trips up the canyon. the avalanche reportedly the deadliest in utah in nearly 30 years. >>> hundreds are feared dead after a glacier collapsed in india. >>> and israel's prime minister faces a judge as we go around the world in 80 seconds. >>> india, more than two dozen people killed when part of a himalayan glacier collapsed and sent water and debris rushing down a mountainside. authorities say the flood crashed into two dams. 165 people are missing, many of them feared dead among them, 37 power plant workers trapped in a tunnel. video shows crews pulling one of the survivors from the debris. >>> israel, prim

laquita willis, friend years old, police say a customer shot and killed her at thisgrocery store near atlanta just yesterday the store's owner set willis asked a man to pull his mask up and he refused according to investigators, the suspect left, came back with gun in hand, and shot her down the sheriff says the suspect then got into a shootout with a deputy working security at the store, and shot the deputy not once, but twice. at last report, the deputy is listed in stable condition in the hospital investigators say officers arrested the man as he tried to crawl out of the supermarket's front door he faces charges of murder and

., atlanta hartsfield, dallas every airport will receive some money, going toward hiring more people and helping out concessionaires, running kiosks and restaurants who really have been hurt in last year >> phil lebeau, thank you. andrew, taxpayers bailed out the airlines with billions in the pandemic, now demand is way up but flights are being canceled because don't have the staff how are the airlines not ready for surge? not watching news or listening to people say we're going to travel the minute we can >> two sides to the story, shep. when the airlines argued to washington they needed bailouts, taxpayers should pay, they said look, we'll be saving jobs, not just saving jobs but ready when the economy and health situation is safe and better we're going to help the economy expand, have people in place, ready to go. they're not. so clearly there's a problem the flip side is that had they not been helped, lot of them may have filed for bankruptcy. still stayed in the air but might have even less people prepared at this moment. so hard to make a call just yet. clearly they have a lot

., atlanta hartsfield, denver and dallas. those are the airports getting the biggest chunk of the $8 billion in grant every airport will receive some money, and some of that money will go towards hiring more people as well as helping out the concessioners, the people running restaurants and kiosks who really have been hurt in the past year. >> phil lebeau live at o'hare. thank you. andrew ross sorkin now, you know taxpayers bailed out these airlines with billions of dollars during the pandemic. so now demand's way up, but flights are being canceled because they can't get their staff back in there. how is that the airlines were not ready for the surge? were they not watching the news or listening when people said we're going to travel the minute we can >> there's two sides of the story. on one side when the airlines argued to washington that they needed bailouts that the taxpayers should pay, they said look, we are going to be saving jobs and ready when the economy and the health situation is safe and better we're going to hel

atlanta recovering after major league baseball moved the all star game. we can call the financial winners and losers the golf tournament will bring in $50 million for atlanta, some economists estimate the all star game losses to be $10 million we should point out, it's hard to calculate the exact impact of a sporting event that didn't happen those aren't just numbers either it's money that is and isn't going to georgia businesses bigt and small. already many of them struggling through the pandemic >> reporter: in atlanta's midtown district, businessowners are trying to figure out how they will make up for the loss of the all star game. >> any time, thousands and hundreds of thousands of people swarm into the city, that trickles into our neighborhood that will suffer but residents who rent out homes to baseball >> reporter: georgia's state representative says it's not just restaurants and nightclubs that will suffer but residents who rent out homes to baseball fans >> when you are talking about people that can't pay their mortgage, a lot of people were put

houston astros set to face the atlanta braves the stros made it to the fall classic thanks to their bats houston put up 67 runs in this postseason and two-thirds of those came with two outs in the nlcs the braves just upset the defending champions and los angeles dodgers. atlanta back into the world series for the first time since 1999 wow, cnbc's jay gray live outside minute maid park in houston. what's the atmosphere like, jay? >> reporter: well, shep, they are ready to go. i think a lot of people have been getting ready, if you know what i mean, for the last few hours. folks walking in here ahead of the first pitch here at minute maid stadium you laid it out perfectly. these are two different teams. the bad boys of baseball for the last several years have been the astros of course, they were implicated in the cheating scandal during the 2017 world series that they won. they were stealing signals and actually signaling base runners by banging garbage cans in the dugout, and as for atlanta, they have struggled to get back to this world series. they have done it -- as you can see, everyb

a week earlier, eight people died at a shooting at three spas in the atlanta area. yet again in america nbc's steve patterson tracking the investigation from orange. steve. >> reporter: shep, we learned much today, but i think the number one thing unequivocally that police and officials wanted to get out there is that this was not a random act of violence this was a very targeted crime according to police. the victim and the suspects, according to police, knew each other, that they had a relationship and that factors in to what they're describing as the initial motive one of the things that they're pointing to in that respect is the way the suspected shooter used this crime almost as not -- you want to say a premeditated fashion, that's for a court of law to decide, but that he used bicycle locks to lock both the front entrance and the back entrance both trapping his victims inside and keeping police out while he fired at police arriving on the scene that is a piece of information they made sure they wanted us to know here's how they're characterizing this initial m

for atlanta, some economists estimate the all-star game losses to be something like $10 million. show we should point out, it's hard to calculate the exact impact of a sporting event that didn't happen. those aren't just numbers, either it's numbers that is and isn't going to georgia businesses, big and small. and already many of them struggling through the pandemic. cnbc's seema mody reports from both cities tonight. >> reporter: in atlanta's midtown district, near the stadium's truest stadium, business owners like alfonso cross are trying to figure out how they'll make up for the loss of the all-star game >> anytime thousands and hundreds of thousands of people swarm into the city, that certainly trickles itself down into our tiny little neighborhood and we see the economic benefits of that. >> reporter: georgia state representative mischa mayner says it's not just nightclubs and restaurants that will suffer, but resident who is rent out their homes to baseball fans, too. >> when you're talking about people who can't pay their mortgage, a lot of people were putting their homes

now, it's building against the masters' golf tournament we are live in atlanta with that, coming up. democrats claim republicans are trying to make it harder to vote for groups that vote democrat. republicans claim they are trying to ensure the integrity of the vote, and that business should stay out of politics. mitch mcconnell says it's stupid president biden says it's modern-day jim crow. that's the noise our job is to look for the signal in other words, what's this really all about here are the facts today's fight is rooted in georgia's 2018-governor's race brian kemp was the republican secretary of state, back then. in charge of the election. he beat the democrat, stacey abrams, to become governor by the slimmest margin in nearly-half-a-century. abrams cried foul, saying kemp had removed georgians from the rolls at the time. the election decided by fewer than 55,000 votes. >> under the watch of the now-former secretary of state, democracy failed georgia georgians of every-political party, every race, every region, again. >> two years later, the 2020 election states across the co

atlanta back at the world series for the first time since 1999. wow. cnbc's jay gray live outside minute maid park in houston. what is the atmosphere like, jay? >> well, shep, they are ready to go i think a lot of people have been getting ready if you know what i mean for the last few hours. so, folks walking in here just ahead of the first pitch here at minute maid stadium. you laid it out pier effectually, shep. this is two very different teams and the bad boys of baseball for the last several years have been these astros of course, they were implicated in the cheating scandal during the 2017 world series that they won. they were stealing signals, and actually signaling base runners by banging garbage cans in the dugout as for atlanta, they have struggled to get back to this world series they've done it -- you can see, they are ready to go here. even some good food here at the ballpark should be a fantastic start to what odds makers say are going to be a very good series a lot of people expect it to go seven. the astros with a slight edge right now.

biden was in atlanta this afternoon. president trump set to rally voters less than two hours from now in north georgia the incumbent republican senator kelly loeffler announced she'll object to certifying mr. biden's win on wednesday, but she dodged question from reporters today about the president's phone call to the georgia secretary of state. >> senator, could you have a reaction to the phone call between the secretary of state and the president of the united states >> well, look, my entire focus is on tomorrow, tuesday, january 5th. >> the president asked second raffensperger to finding vote. do you think it's wrong what the president asked him? >> look, my entire focus is on tomorrow. >> it seems a lot of georgians' entire focus is on tomorrow as the voter turnout has been record shattering. more than 3 million georgians voted early, the largest total turnout for a georgia runoff before this one was 2.1 million. so many records broken priscilla thompson is live in atlanta for us tonight priscilla? >> reporter: shep,

he first became a sneaker head while growing up here in atlanta. >> when where saw the air maxes, this is it, this is what i want. i remember bagg begging my grandmother and her like, absolutely not >> in the studio and on stage, he's had an inside perspective on how music has been a front line for fashion >> hip-hop has been the greatest free advertisement for sneakers ever hip-hop has been what has pushed sneaker culture, street wear culture, and i would say fashion in particular in terms of rap, you always want to one up, you want your style, your swagger. i think it went hand in hand >> man maybe most responsible for taking the sneaker from shoe to status symbol is michael jordan nearly four decades after debuting on the hardwood of chicago, his namesake shoes remain constant top sellers. does mj have a favorite shoe >> it's like me asking which one of my kids are my favorite if i had to pick a favorite, i would say the 11 is the shoe i think took it from the basketball court to the fashion world, when boys ii men wore them at the grammys with the tuxede, that's when we crossed ove

the most deck tated woman gymnast in olympics history with a total of seven medals in barcelona and atlanta and look who's here, shannon miller herself. most of us can never relate to the pressure that's on biles you can. help us understand >> it's always hard to put yourself in a position of another athlete because every athlete comes to the games with their individual experiences and what they're dealing with not only inside the gym and the pressures surrounding this score but everything that's gone on in their life and so i don't want to conjecture what's going through simone biles' mind as an athlete, there's nobody that could put more pressure on myself than me i want to go out there i'm competing for my country i want to make sure that i'm not falling. i don't want to fail i don't want to let everyone down you take to that heart when you're competing for something bigger than yourself and it really is taking the time to focus and make sure you're working on the mental game as much as the physical game >> how tough is it to flip the switch you stopped one thing for whatever reasons and

here in atlanta, it is a mandate. parents brought kids to school masked and ready there was a lot of enthusiasm they are seeing it as an opportunity after 18 months of virtual learning they are able to have students learn in-person with a safety precaution in place and the superintendent is feeling energized by having kids coming back to the classroom and has been preparing for this and feels like she will be able to be flexible because you can't control the virus and only do your best to protect it. heeshs here's what she had to say. >> we have a responsibility to pivot as we observe the rise in the delta variant. we all know how to pivot back to the virtual space that we did the past year. >> reporter: the superintendent also mentioning her staff right now only has a vaccination rate of 58% to 59%. she hopes the percentage of will go up as the school year begins as well as vaccinated students out of eligible students only 18% are vaccinated shep >> catie beck, thanks. >>> a statewide mask mandate is now in effect in

we got an inside look at u.p.s right now i'm here in atlanta at what u.p.s. calls a superhub there are seven of these facilities worldwide that work to process packages 24/7 today we're getting a behind-the-scenes exclusive look at how u.p.s. is gearing up for unprecedented demand this season with me now is bill, the president of worldwide sales bill, talk about why this facility is so important during the holidays. >> all of our facilities are important. this one is automated a facility as we have anywhere in the world. >> reporter: 3,400 employees work here. it's the size of 21 football fields and on an average day, they process 900,000 packages, a number that rises to 1.4 million a day during the holidays. the packages arrive from all over the world in tractor-trailers they're placed onto these conveyor belts, and then the packages zip around the facility on 18 miles of conveyor belts, making their way through these scanning stations which will eventually direct them down these chutes to be sorted for delivery for larger things -- >> this is an autonomous

cnbc's seema mody on the top story, covering the dueling boycotts from atlanta tonight. seema, whole countries talking about georgia's voting law what are you hearing from the actual voters there? >> reporter: shep, here in atlanta, we found mixed opinions, but many expressing a sense of frustration, saying the new law does restrict voting >> it's been very discouraging, you know i mean especially, you know, after we did all we did, you know, with the past elections and everything like that. >> i think it's awful. i think it's a black eye for the state. i think that the only reason they did it was to get people not to vote. it's specific in terms of who it's trying to disinfranchise. >> to be honest, it really sounds like it's another set of jim crow, not to be like that, but to limit the people's voice. i don't think that's right >> reporter: others were in favor of this law, shep, or said that boycotts do not work. meantime, democrats here in georgia including both senators say boycotts will hurt georgia's economy that is still reeling from the effect of the pandemic.